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 #1 Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 27/08/2010 @ 14:39 |
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Hi All,
I've got to a point where blasting down the slope at CFe just isn't enough, and I was wondering if there's anyone regularly going to CFe that would be kind enough to teach me how to butter? I would book a lesson, but I'm skint  |
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| #2 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 31/08/2010 @ 12:36 |
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I'm not shredding at CF anytime soon, can't with a broken leg 
I can give you some tips that might help if you'd like?
Cheers, Gav |
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| #3 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 01/09/2010 @ 09:37 |
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All help gratefully received!
**Edit** And sorry to hear about your broken leg  |
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| #4 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 01/09/2010 @ 11:30 |
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Thanks about the leg! 
OK, others may be able to chip in, but if I was trying to help a mate to butter, this is what I'd say:
1) You can practice the butter "position" on your board, on the flat. Which also means you can try it in your living room if you really want to.
Stand in your normal stance, shoulders level. Shift your upper body toward one end of the board, a little. Keep your shoulders level. Your hips and waist "drop", and you should be bending the at the knee on the leg that your moving over.
The aim here is to move your centre of gravity away from the middle of the board (in your normal stance), toward one of the ends - whilst staying balanced! You're not just leaning back.
a) You should be able to hold this position
b) The other end of the board might be lifting off the floor/snow a little. Don't worry if it isn't 6" in the air. Just a couple of inches is fine to start with. Balance is important here.
2) You can try hopping from one butter position to the other: from having the weight over your nose, to having the weight over the tail. It's useful to try this because doing so will ensure that you're balanced in the butter position - If you're not, you'll fall over 
Again - try this on the flat somewhere, at home if you want to. Don't tear up the carpet though
3) Try a basic butter, weight over the tail. Just riding straight down, shift your weight into the butter position. Again, being balanced you should be able to hold this position. Again, don't worry if it feels like the board is hardly off the snow - that will come with practice.
- if you can't keep the board going straight, then you're applying pressure to either the toe or heel edge, and you're probably skidding out of the butter. Keep your shoulders parallel with the board, and just turn your head to look down the slope.
If you're getting this ok, here are two things to try:
a) do a little nollie into the butter. Just a little pop off the nose, landing on the tail, in the butter position. It's a good way to enter the butter.
b) do a little olli out of the butter. When you're done, just pop off the tail a little and land on both feet. It's a good way to exit the butter.
4) Experiment with rotation. Do a basic tail butter, going straight down the slope. Open your shoulders to the down hill direction - so your chest is pointing down hill. As you do this, you should feel the nose of the board spin around in the same way.
Likewise for turning your shoulders the other way, so your chest starts to point back up the hill.
When you're experimenting with this "turning" from the butter position, there are some nice things you can do. One is to get the board to turn 90 degrees, and then pop the next 90.
So in the first example of opening your shoulders to the down hill direction, you butter round 90 degrees and then pop out, landing switch.
5) Experiment with landing in a butter. Just like above where you can start the butter with a little nollie into it, you can do other things like a 180 into the butter.
Try a littler flat land frontside 180 and land in the butter position (now, it will be over your nose). The pop out. If you can keep the rotation going, you can pop out another 180, back to regular. You might find a frontside 180 easier to start with, but if you can do a little backside 180 into the butter, popping the second 180 out from that position should be easier 
I hope some of that made sense There should be some stuff to work on.
Good luck!
Gav |
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| #5 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 01/09/2010 @ 22:01 |
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thats help mee  the rug is going out in the back garden(incase i fall) tomorrow to give this a go  |
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| #6 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 01/09/2010 @ 22:12 |
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Loads of good videos on mopora and you tube showing you all you need to know |
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| #7 Re: Please teach me to butter! - Chill Factore Posted 02/09/2010 @ 16:27 |
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Another thing I'm just starting to play with, so thanks very much for the tips! |
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